fill in the blank, it will always be true.

My favorite Stormtroopers were the two who turned around to avoid Ren’s emo tantrum.

Don’t you mean beary best?

Two questions:does every Eagle have to carry one? What is the maneuver penalty/g-limit for this bad boy?

As a guy who works on the B1, let me speak up a bit here:

Agreeing to disagree is no fun. :)

As Rogoway said, the weapon matters more than the platform in this benign air environment, and every single USAF combat aircraft (i.e. shooters) has now been modified to deliver weapons appropriate for CAS, so saying the Air Force hasn’t adapted its inventory for irregular warfare is nonsense.

It’s only that ISIS has no air defense that allows a strategic bomber to be used like this. If anything, the B-1 doing CAS in ANY environment is a testament to its flexible design, the evolution of precise targeting and precision weapons, and the imagination of the Air Force. As Rogoway said, weapons matter more than…

I think you need to sit down, calm yourself and STF up.. You’re making these calls from home in a safe environment while an actual serving B1 pilot is telling you the way it is.

you really have no clue what you are talking about: “The B-1 needs a Reaper there...” I’ve never needed a Reaper to target anything. I’ve dropped over precisions 500 weapons in combat; you must be the other guy. By the way, my last sortie (over Ramadi, as it were), I was doing coordinated strikes with A-10s on vastly…

Can UAS platforms observe? Yes, but there’s more to a CAS mission than looking at a target with your actual eyes, there’s air stack management, different types of aircraft controls etc, my point is that it is not the preferred method, there’s a reason JTAC’s get paid such big reenlistment bonuses and the Army is…

You don’t support your “most likely” future scenario. It would seem that the Pentagon planners don’t consider this the most threatening scenario either.

Do the figures for the F16 and the A10 include the per hour cost of flying a tanker to accompany them??

Good lord! Ignorance rules the day on Foxtrot Alpha!

not sure why you think it is a really expensive plane, unless you are confusing it with the B-2. The B-1’s cost per flying hour, coupled with the loiter time, weapons payload, reduced tanker support to get it there, make it far cheaper to provide persistent overhead precision CAS than any other platform in a fight…

Who says it needs an F-16 or A-10 to target for it?

Any fighter would need the same assistance in targeting and neither a fighter nor a drone can match the payload you get with a bomber. When you factor in that you don’t need the tanker support for the B-1 that you would with an F-16 it’s a smart move.

That’s a really expensive plane to operate...

You never ever plan for RIGHT NOW.

It doesn’t matter if it’s Art History or another programme. The basics of an university education show at least, and more often than not, better decision making, rhetoric and discourse. More often than not (repeated emphasis), someone with an university degree is more mature and has a better understanding than someone…